Hardware Recommendations

dlarz · Apr 30, 2004

I am a new SolidWorks user that recently joined a company as their first mechanical engineer. I entered the company to the following hardware:

1Gig AMD Athelon, 1M Ram, NVidia Vanta graphics, 16" monitor.

My primary responsibilities here will be plastic design with substantial surfacing and hundreds of small holes for venting (electrical packaging applications). I'm currently working on a previous design and find the computer to be frustratingly slow. I'm fairly certain I know what my needs are in hardware but would like to hear from others operating SolidWorks and what computer systems are currently in use. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks... Dave

SBaugh · Apr 30, 2004

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/services/SystemRequirements.html

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/services/VideoCardTesting.html

That card doesn't even show up as being tested. That is most likely your bottle neck.

What OS are you using?

Hundreds of holes in a part is going to make a lot of computers even some of the higher end computers slow down. There is much you can do about it, but get better hardware and make sure when SW was installed that you didn't have any AV (Anti-Virus} running.

1Gig of RAM is a minimum in my opinion... that is if your using SW2004??

I would upgrade your CPU to faster one. It doesn't have to be top of the line but more than 1Gig.

Check out this article from SW -

http://www.solidworks.com/swexpress/mar04/200403_techtip_02.cfm

Main page -

http://www.solidworks.com/swexpress/index.cfm

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Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP [borg2]